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Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis

The compilation includes essays by a variety of radical feminists such as Alice Walker, Robin Morgan, Kathleen Barry, Diana E. H. Russell, Susan Leigh Star, Ti-Grace Atkinson, John Stoltenberg, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Susan Griffin, Cheri Lesh, and Judy Butler.

Alice-Leone Moats

Even in her last column she criticized the feminists of the her country for failing to rally behind U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, who had voted against the appointment of John Tower as secretary of defense.

Anna Mary Howitt

The younger group with whom Howitt became associated were the Langham Place feminists, notably her close friend the artist Barbara Leigh Smith, along with whom she joined Rossetti's Folio Club.

Blanche Baker

During out-of-town tryouts and in New York, the play was picketed by feminists, including Women Against Pornography, who were outraged by the theme of pedophilia.

David M. Scienceman

At a meeting of the World Future Society in 1976, a group of American feminists told him his new name was unbearably sexist.

Dowry

Feminists in South Asia, such as India's Madhu Kishwar – editor of the Delhi-based feminist magazine Manushi – point out that inheritance laws in India discriminate against women, with inheritances being left only to sons.

Ellen Key

In Die Antifeministen (The Antifeminists, 1902) by Hedwig Dohm cited both Key and Lou Andreas-Salomé as anti-feminists.

Feminism and technology

Networked feminism, the online mobilization and coordination of feminists in response to sexist acts

Feminist views of pornography

Some anti-pornography feminists, such as Nikki Craft, Ann Simonton, and Melissa Farley, have advocated and carried out civil disobedience and direct action against pornography and been arrested for public nudity.

Anti-pornography feminists point to the testimony of well known participants in pornography, such as Traci Lords and Linda Boreman, and argue that most female performers are coerced into pornography, either by somebody else, or by an unfortunate set of circumstances.

Feminist views on transgenderism and transsexualism

Some feminists such as Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys believe that transgender and transsexual people uphold and reinforce sexist gender roles and the gender binary, while other feminists, such as Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam, believe that transgender and transsexual people challenge repressive gender norms and that transgender politics are fully compatible with feminism.

Perhaps the most visible site of conflict between feminists and trans women has been the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.

Francine Gottfried

The events of September 1968 made an impression on New York City feminists, and in March 1970, feminists retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In," in which a large group of feminists, including Karla Jay, Alix Kates Shulman, and a number of women who had participated in the sit-in at Ladies Home Journal a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work.

GenderPAC

GenderPAC exemplified what certain feminists opposed about queer rights movements and certain elements of gender studies: Sheila Jeffreys wrote that its aims ignored women in favor of "transgenders, most of whom are men, and homosexuality," and that the organization's conception of gender as something that should be protected, and the basis for individuals rights that needed to be respected rather than eliminated, would serve to reinforce discrimination.

Girls Lean Back Everywhere

Heap and Anderson were American feminists and publishers, who published the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses in their magazine, the Little Review.

House of Councillors

Some national political figures, such as feminists Shidzue Katō and Fusae Ichikawa and former Imperial Army general Kazushige Ugaki, were elected through the block, along with a number of celebrities such as comedian Yukio Aoshima (later Governor of Tokyo), journalist Hideo Den and actress Yūko Mochizuki.

Irina Dunn

Dunn coined the famous catch phrase: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," which was subsequently popularized by Gloria Steinem and became a popular slogan among feminists.

Jacquetta Hawkes

In her general work on the Minoans (Dawn of the Gods, 1968), Hawkes was one of the first archaeologists to suggest that the ancient Minoans might have been ruled by women; the idea had been discussed long before by historians of culture and religion (for instance Joseph Campbell), and outside of the academic community, sometimes by feminists.

Kali

A variety of writers and thinkers have found Kali an exciting figure for reflection and exploration, notably feminists and participants in New Age spirituality who are attracted to goddess worship.

Laurie A. Rudman

Her 2007 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research publication, "The interpersonal power of feminism: Is feminism good for relationships?" made the assertion that feminists make better lovers than non-feminists and sparked a stir in the academic community.

Marcus Buckingham

Some prominent feminists including Katha Pollitt and Barbara Ehrenreich criticized the book and a series of articles written by Buckingham in Huffington Post.

Marie Maugeret

The Catholic women feminists became a strong force in France after Pope Benedict XV approved women's suffrage in 1919,

Marital rape

Advocates of free love, including early anarcha-feminists such as Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, as well as Victoria Woodhull, Thomas Low Nichols, and Mary S. Gove Nichols, joined a critique of marital rape to advocacy of women's autonomy and sexual pleasure.

Matriarchal religion

The ideas of Bachofen and Graves were taken up in the 1970s by second-wave feminists, such as author Merlin Stone, who took the Paleolithic Venus figurines as evidence of prehistorical matriarchal religion.

Neven Maguire

John Masterson, writing in the Irish Independent, accused Liveline of "manufacturing" the fight, called the radio show a "kangaroo-court" and questioned why football manager Giovanni Trapattoni ("who had one more model than Neven in the same paper") was not equally guilty according to the feminists.

New feminism

New feminists were opposed mainly by young women, especially those in the Six Point Group, particularly Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, and Dorothy Evans, who saw this as a retrograde step towards the separate spheres ideology of the 19th century.

Opposition to pornography

However, many other feminists are opposed to censorship, and have argued against the introduction of anti-porn legislation in the United States - among them Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Karen DeCrow, Wendy Kaminer and Jamaica Kincaid.

Paul Julius Möbius

-- translation? In addition, he claims that the rubbish is a positive property serves the preservation of the human species and necessarily clear from the evolution of man.--> Moebius received plaudits for this piece, but also criticism, such as The Anti-feminists (1902) by Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919).

Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade

We are anarchists, communists, anti-racists, animal liberationists, earth liberationists, luddites, feminists, queer liberationists, and many more things across various other fronts.

Section Twenty-eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

As the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women noted, many of the feminists who pushed for having section 28 in the Charter hoped that it would not just be read literally but would also "provide a social and historical context in which women's claims can be better understood"; it existed to remind judges charged with enforcing the Charter that women had been "recognized as 'persons'" and had gained more equality in marriage.

Slaven Letica

During his time at Globus he gained some notoriety due to an unsigned opinion piece (which he eventually admitted to have written) in which he attacked five Croatian feminists (Slavenka Drakulić, Vesna Kesić, Jelena Lovrić, Dubravka Ugrešić and Rada Iveković), accusing them of betraying Croatia.

Sudhi Ranjan Das

Das was also a cousin of two prominent Bengali educationists and feminists - the sisters Sarala Roy, founder of the Gokhale Memorial Girls' College in Calcutta and a prominent person in Bengal's social affairs, and Lady Abala Bose, wife of scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose and also a prominent person of her time.

UCOII

In her defence UCOII claims that such ties are limited to the personal militancy of part of her leadership and management and that UCOII related more actually to the European Council for Fatwa and Research, to scholars like the Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa, to European Islam, to Tariq Ramadan, to the scholarship of Islamic feminists and to the writings of Italian converts and Muslim youngs and students in Italy.

When I Was Growing Up

Her work, particularly this piece, is often cited in the works of feminists or advocates of feminisms with intersectional frameworks like This Bridge Called My Back.

Who Stole Feminism?

John M. Ellis, an author and famous scholar of German literature, called the book one of several critiques of the "intellectual deterioration" that has occurred within humanities courses in the United States, and he suggested that, like the others, it was met with "bitter hostility" from campus feminists.

Wimin

Womyn, an alternate spelling of the word 'women', sometimes used by feminists.

Women in Uniform

According to the band, the cover was a joke which was meant to ask whether her motive was through jealousy or revenge (following the infamous "Sanctuary" artwork that featured Eddie killing Thatcher), which managed to cause further controversy as, according to the Liverpool Daily Post, a group of "screaming, chanting, banner-carrying feminists" led a demonstration during Iron Maiden's show at Leeds University on 22 November.


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